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- noun Plural form of
quarry .
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Examples
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Besides working on the building, slaves worked in quarries extracting the stone for the Capitol.
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Her quarries are the names behind the faces in 50,000 antique negatives left in the town's shuttered Casasola photography studio.
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“Our quarries are the roads, our veins the dark alleys.”
SNOW Tracy Lynn 2003
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“Our quarries are the roads, our veins the dark alleys.”
SNOW Tracy Lynn 2003
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The carrying of burdens and the irksome work of excavating the quarries was assigned to the remnant of the Canaanites (1Ki 9: 20; 2Ch 8: 7-9) and war prisoners made by David -- amounting to 153,600.
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At the back of ponds, just inside the enclosure of woods, angles of corn-fields, old quarries, that is where to find grasses, or by the sea in the brackish marsh.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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One concern caused by the quarries is their environmental impact.
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One concern caused by the quarries is their environmental impact.
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Their main "quarries" are those houses that have fallen down or workplaces abandoned for many years by the apathetic State.
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Those occurring at or near the surface, and called "quarries," "placer deposits,"
msquires2 commented on the word quarries
I think Quarries are some sort of nature-made ditch where a lot of rocks are taken from for building materials and such? I don't really know how this relates to Outliers though, unless my definition is totally off, which is very likely.
September 28, 2011
bilby commented on the word quarries
That's a bit like saying Red Rooster is a nature-made outcrop of stultifying glugburbia where wildfowl summarily disrobe and commit chicka-kiri, throw themselves into conveniently-placed geysers of hot oil, mysteriously jump out again, roll in the local salt-lick and hurl themselves into foil bags that tumble into the hubba-hubba greasewagons of slavering bogans at the drive-thru. This wondrous cycle repeats 24/7, despite the naturally fugly blue and red plastic sign being currently short of internal glow-worms during the nocturnal hours.
September 29, 2011